The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-11

comes day that she must bend, as girls must often bend over the old worn-out body of mother lying un- hee<iful in her coffin. rough hands folded, her long diSquiet merged in rest, something very sweet will bc mingled with her loss. and the girl who helped mother will find bene- diction of peace upon her head and in her heart.
 There is girl who is very popular with young men before they have had their first muStache. She is the girl who "frivvles," She never has known what it was to be in earnest. She reads only the lightest of light novels and newspaper poetry. If her companions talk of books, or of travel, of politics, of anything that is earnest and thoughtful she becomes as restive as a stabbed colt, She cannot put her mind on anything. She has no mind. She reads the stories in the magazines, but slips all the long para graphs. It is so with life. She is try ing to skip allof life's long paragraphs. She has the poorest outlook of any girl I know. When the college boys outgrow her frivolous conversation, she will be stranded in the desert of her own society. She will grow wrinkled and old, but she will not al- ways be frivolous. This beautiful. thing called lite-the creation of Gods own master hand-will always be to her thing of tin>el, daub, bonbon. nd hn .rf,I lao, f,.t, x..tlt when she is old, tire of tinsel and daubs and bonbons. But then it will be too late.
 The girl ho works-God bless her is another girl whom know. She is brave and active. She is not too proud to earn her own living. nor ashamed to be caught at her daily task. She is studious and painstaking and patient. She smiles at you from behind counter or desk. Therc is Il memory of her sewn into each silken gown. She is like d beautiful young mountaincer already far up the hin, and the sight of her should bc fine inspiration for us all. Ii is an honor to know this girl-to he worthy ot her regard. Her hand may be stained with factory grease or printers ink but 1t k an honest hand and n helping hand. IL stays misfortune from many homes; it is the one shield that pro tects many a torlorn little family from the almshoHSe and asy lum- hrnve, no- lite, refined. ambitious, the south is the rightful home of the girl who works-God bless her.
 The girl who sits on the hotel gal lery at the summer resort and sighs for the coming man. who goes about her house in the morning clad in n Mother Hubbard wrapper, with her hair up in curl papers, who does noth- ing all day long, who plays the piano while her mother is up stairs making the beds or down stairs cooking the dinner, whose conversation has always n "he" in 1t, and her laugh "hc- he, V is not the girl who will be good wife to keep the torch of love burning on the home hearth, to be the smiling and comfortable fire tender, the Sun day and the joy of some good man.
 In all the mingled. many varieties of daisies, the prctticst. the daintiest is the one that Shakespeare sings of when
 "DaIsIes pied and violet. blue.
 And lady smock all silver white.
 And cuckoo buds of yellow hue
 Do paint the meadows with delight"
 It is bonnie blossom this daisy pied with peariy pink petals fleckcd with all delicate suggestions of tender color, and it has mate in the girl world in the average girl whom every body loves.
 She is idle, bright, energetic, list less, all in breath. Now as gay as q bunch of Stratford- on Avon field flowers, now as subducd as rainy day in summertime She is easily in- terested and easily pleased. She would not be afraid to talk altruistic faith to Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, or re- alistic philosophy to Dr. McCosh. She will entertain bore as cheerfully as she will beau. and Is not too self ish to visit sick old women or to play with lonely little children. She will tackle anything; the last volume oi poetry, the latest theory about the age of the world, or the death of the moon. She is generous and unsclfish full of good sense, good health, with q clear skin and conscience, and an amazingly healthy appetite. What experience have you or 30 touch ing as her innocence? What wisdom of the world so important as her ig- norance of it? What treasure have we stored up as precious as her youth? Her mission is 10 teach us to despise selfishness and affcctation, to throw of our old reserves and show us how to be honest and natural and sincere and kind. It is not she who talks gossip. It is not she who kisses you with one lip and defames you with the other. She is young and true and hopeful. ] C<,At.. .,..rl.i.,sa In. ll.1. |.